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  2. Internal and external angles - Wikipedia

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    The sum of the internal angle and the external angle on the same vertex is π radians (180°). The sum of all the internal angles of a simple polygon is π (n −2) radians or 180 (n –2) degrees, where n is the number of sides. The formula can be proved by using mathematical induction: starting with a triangle, for which the angle sum is 180 ...

  3. Solid angle - Wikipedia

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    1 {\displaystyle 1} In geometry, a solid angle (symbol: Ω) is a measure of the amount of the field of view from some particular point that a given object covers. That is, it is a measure of how large the object appears to an observer looking from that point. The point from which the object is viewed is called the apex of the solid angle, and ...

  4. Platonic solid - Wikipedia

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    The solid angle, Ω, at the vertex of a Platonic solid is given in terms of the dihedral angle by Ω = q θ − ( q − 2 ) π . {\displaystyle \Omega =q\theta -(q-2)\pi .\,} This follows from the spherical excess formula for a spherical polygon and the fact that the vertex figure of the polyhedron { p , q } is a regular q -gon.

  5. Right triangle - Wikipedia

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    Right triangle. A right triangle or right-angled triangle, sometimes called an orthogonal triangle or rectangular triangle, is a triangle in which two sides are perpendicular, forming a right angle (1⁄4 turn or 90 degrees). The side opposite to the right angle is called the hypotenuse (side in the figure). The sides adjacent to the right ...

  6. Euclidean geometry - Wikipedia

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    The angle scale is absolute, and Euclid uses the right angle as his basic unit, so that, for example, a 45-degree angle would be referred to as half of a right angle. The distance scale is relative; one arbitrarily picks a line segment with a certain nonzero length as the unit, and other distances are expressed in relation to it.

  7. Steradian - Wikipedia

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    1 m 2 /m 2. square degrees. 1802 / π2⁠ deg2. ≈ 3 282.8 deg 2. The steradian (symbol: sr) or square radian[1][2] is the unit of solid angle in the International System of Units (SI). It is used in three dimensional geometry, and is analogous to the radian, which quantifies planar angles. A solid angle in steradians, projected onto a sphere ...

  8. Thales's theorem - Wikipedia

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    Thales's theorem. Thales’ theorem: if AC is a diameter and B is a point on the diameter's circle, the angle ∠ ABC is a right angle. In geometry, Thales's theorem states that if A, B, and C are distinct points on a circle where the line AC is a diameter, the angle ∠ ABC is a right angle. Thales's theorem is a special case of the inscribed ...

  9. Rectangle - Wikipedia

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    In Euclidean plane geometry, a rectangle is a rectilinear convex polygon or a quadrilateral with four right angles. It can also be defined as: an equiangular quadrilateral, since equiangular means that all of its angles are equal (360°/4 = 90°); or a parallelogram containing a right angle. A rectangle with four sides of equal length is a ...